For years and years of my life I was suicidal. The ONLY reason I didn't kill myself was because I was terrified of dying.

A few months ago, I stopped being scared of death...and I stopped being suicidal, too. I would say that it was fortunate that those two events happened almost simultaneously, before I could go and off myself while still in suicidal mode, but I don't think it was a coincidence.

It doesn't work that way. Animals you'd probably claim don't have souls fear death. Life wants to keep living. And consequences in the here and now (because we don't each live in our own vacuum) are plenty to keep people in line without giving them complexes about what might happen later.

Look, both religous and non-religous people can feel fear. I guess fear of going to Hell after you die can get bad. And non-existance can be a scary concept too (though I think that's certainly less frightening or horrific than an eternity of torture.) There aren't many atheists out there who actually want to die, you know, or who don't actually care about their lives. Mostly what I fear when thinking about what will happen after my death is the same thing I fear alive, here and now: about all the terrible nasty things that are going on in the world and the terrifying things that might.

Oh, and I don't believe and have plenty of fear regarding... well, not death, because I have no diea what that will be, either there is something afterwards, what is good... or there is nothing... what won't bother me anymore...
But dying... it scares me a lot! - if death is nothing... wouldn't dying be like dissapearning into that nothingness... maybe while realizing one is? - Scary thought there!

Actually I think he's talking about Judgement Day, not fear of death itself, and I think he has a point where many fundies are concerned, who seem to have little moral compass of their own, and whose actions are only tempered by their fear of judgement and eternal damnation after death.